Oracle OLAP 11g new features enhance the performance of Oracle-platform-based data warehouses. They provide a complete summary management capability and can add more calculation capabilities. Views are automatically created that enable standard SQL to access the original data and additional measures. Your business rules and measures can be securely stored in the database. This content can be accessed with any application, such as Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, Oracle Application Express, Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher, and Oracle SQL Developer plus non-Oracle tools such as Microsoft Excel via the Simba MDX Provider for Oracle OLAP. This session focuses on Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (including the new map views in 11g) and Excel.